According to Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, about 20 private laboratories all over India have been granted the permission to conduct the tests for confirming swine flu. He emphasized that the spread of H1N1 infection is being controlled and that there is nothing to cause ...

10 more deaths due to swine flu have been confirmed on Thursday in India. With this the total death toll, took a leap to touch 45.
 
The last 24 hours witnessed 4 deaths in Karnataka, two each in Delhi, Pune and Gujarat.
 
Karnataka now stands in the second position with a total of 11 ...

H1N1 virus claimed the life of a 22 year old woman in Malaysia who had been pregnant with her eight month old child. The baby also succumbed to the virus. The death toll now has touched 68 in the country.
 
569 infected cases of H1N1 has been reported on Thursday from the nation, which is ...

According to Ayurvedic experts, foods that are low in immunity along with junk food that contain low turmeric can increase the risk of developing conditions similar to swine flu. He also added that the increased intake of white foods can also lower the immunity, causing swine flu-like ...

With the death of two people in New Delhi, the death toll of India has reached 32.
 
The deceased include the 31-year-old Samrat Pandaya and the 38-year-old Renu Gupta.
 
Renu Gupta succumbed to the lethal virus yesterday night where as Samrat passed away today.
 
Samrat had ...

Private diagnostic network Super Religare Laboratories (SRL) said here Friday that it is ready to conduct swine flu tests at Rs.4,000, while the government claims it spends nearly Rs.10,000 for testing a swine flu patient's sample.
 

"We are fully prepared for the screening of H1N1 in ...

The death toll due to swine flu has reached 24 with the death of an elderly woman and a teenage boy in Pune and Raipur.
 
70-year-old Parubhai Shinde, who had been admitted to a hospital in Pune four days back following high fever and other symptoms of swine flu, passed away during late ...

A 26-year-old school teacher succumbed to swine flu virus at the St. Philomena Hospital in Bangalore on Wednesday. The health authorities declared this on Thursday as Karnataka's first swine flu victim, taking India's death toll to 20.
 
"Her throat and nasal swabs tests have confirmed ...

A nine-month-old baby succumbed to the lethal A/H1N1 virus in Pune on Thursday with India’s swine flu death toll reaching 18.
 
The infant, who had been suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, succumbed to the deadly virus at the Sahyadri Munot Hospital, in ...

Ayurvedic doctors claim that medicinal herbs like tulsi (basil), have the potential to fight against swine flu by boosting the immunity of humans.
 
According to Preeti Chhabra, medicinal herbs like tulsi, ashwagandha, guduchi and amla has the potential to boost one's immunity level, thus ...

A doctor succumbed to H1N1 viral infection to become the 14th swine flu victim in India. This is the first swine flu death recorded in Nasik in Maharashtra.
 
With the death of a 29-year-old woman in Sassoon hospital early on Wednesday, the death toll in Pune alone has become 7. ...

A seven-year-old girl succumbed to H1N1 influenza at a government hospital in Vadodara, Gujarat city early on Tuesday, taking the death toll in India to 10.
 
"The girl had been under ventilation in the hospital for the past two days after being brought for treatment on Aug 7. The girl ...

The Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has told that India is ready to import swine flu or A(H1N1) vaccine from any country , where it is developed first.
 
"Three Indian companies are working to develop the swine flu vaccine. Should any country develop the vaccine first, we will ...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has plans to develop a low-cost testing kit for testing the A/H1N1 infection. This information was told by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday.
 
Azad who was speaking to the reporters on Monday told that the virus infection, which has ...

A 13-year old girl from Pune succumbed to swine flu on Tuesday morning, taking the death toll to 8 in India
 
Shruti Gawade of Ahilyadevi School succumbed to H1N1 virus in Maharashtra, taking the death toll of the state to 6. 5 of them died in Pune itself.
 
Shruti, a resident of ...

Swine flu has claimed two more lives in India, taking the death toll to 6. An Ayurvedic doctor who was 35-year-old in Pune and a four-year-old boy in Chennai were the victims of A/H1N1 virus.
 
Baburao Mane, an ayurvedic doctor who had been working in Pune's slum areas, had been admitted to ...

More than 1700 cases of infection due to A/H1N1 virus, has been reported by the South Korean government on Sunday.
 
The South Korean for health, welfare and family affairs has reported an additional 51 swine flu cases making the total infections to 1,754.
 
The new cases included ...

Manmohan Singh has asked the Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to form a team of doctors to provide "correct information" to the masses regarding swine flu, which has claimed four lives in Indiain recent past.
Manmohan Singh also said that the Doctors' panel should also provide proper ...

According to doctors who have been practising homeopathy for a long period of time, this alternative medicine has the potential to both prevent and cure swine flu, without any side effects.
 
The homeopaths are in the process of drafting a proposal for the health ministry to offer their ...

The Maharashtra government has invoked the Epidemic Act in Pune and Satara districts to check the spread of swine flu. This decision was taken in wake of the death of Rida Shaikh, the 14 year girl who passed away in Pune due to swine flu.
 
"The Act has been invoked to prevent spread of ...

The first swine flu death in India has been reported after a 14-year-old girl student died in Pune on Monday of the influenza A(H1N1) virus.
 
The girl was on the ventilator for the past many days at an ICU in a hospital in Pune.
 
India has over 500 swine flu cases with Pune being ...

India is still continuing its swine flu tests and from today AIIMS, New Delhi will also be conducting tests for influenza AH1N1.
 
"We have not stopped the H1N1 testing as yet. Apart from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, two other institutes including AIIMS have been ...

Twenty-one new cases of swine flu were reported Saturday taking the total number of infected cases in India to 413.
"Twenty one new laboratory confirmed cases have been reported today - Delhi (2), Pune (10), Jaipur (4), Visakhapatnam (2), Hyderabad (1), Cochin (1) and Bangalore (1)," a ...

According to a latest study on swine flu, copper is quite effective in inhibiting the influenza A H1N1 virus commonly known as Swine flu.
 
Copper appears to have a broad spectrum in antiviral activity due to its effectiveness against RNA (Ribonucleic acid)-based influenza and DNA ...

The US will begin the clinical trials of two vaccine candidates for swine fl. Swine flu has claimed the life over 700 people worldwide. This information was disclosed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Wednesday.
 
Eight university research hospitals will be involved in the ...

Google has closed it Hyderabad office as six of its employees showed symptoms of swine flu. A company spokesman confirmed that Google has announced two-day holiday for all its employees at the office here to enable them undergo screening for Influenza A(N1H1).
 
Over 1,000 employees of the ...

The dangerous swine flu virus has the ability to reach deep into lungs and intestines, according to studies on ferrets. This study might explain why the symptoms of swine flu are different from those of seasonal flu.
The studies were done by two separate groups that have been using ferrets to ...

Nepal reported its first case of swine flu with three members of the same family testing positive on Monday.

The health ministry called a press conference to specify that a 48-year-old man, a 38-year-old woman and an eight-year-old boy had been found to have contracted the Influenza A(H1N1) ...

The director general of the WHO, Margaret Chan, told a Russian news agency on Thursday, that the H1N1/A virus causing the pandemic swine flu, has become “stable’ for the time being. She also mentioned that the virus has to be monitored in a more careful manner now.
 
Chan said ...

The total numbers of people who have been infected with the lethal H1N1/A virus or swine flu, have crossed the mark of 3,000 in Australia.  This information was announced by the health ministry on Thursday.
 
In an update to media, Health Minister of Australia, Nicola Roxon said the ...